Seeing as they're already looking a popular choice this season and proved to be so last season I figured I'll get this up again, after all it was my team discussion in 2011

Liverpool Football Club

Introduction

Liverpool FC were founded way back in 1892 after local rivals Everton refused to pay to play at Anfield, so the owner needed his own team to fill the stands. They are a team used to success, with their major trophy count at 18 League titles, 7 FA Cups, a record-holding 7 League Cups, 5 European Cups and a record-holding 3 UEFA Cups.

Tragedies

The club has experience horrific events which no football club should ever endure, events that has brought the club and its fans closer than any other club. The Heysel incident happened before the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus took place. 39 Juventus fans were crushed after one of the stadiums walls collapsed on them. It was the first European cup final Liverpool lost.Hillsborough happened before the FA Cup semi-final tie against Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, where 96 Liverpool fans were crushed at the gates. It remains the deadliest football-related disaster in Britain history over Heysel.

Success in the Past

Their most successful times came during the 70's and 80's under the regimes of Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish where they won a combined total of 32 trophies. Of course none of these are reknowned as the club's greatest manager, that honour lies with Bill Shankley, a man who transformed the club from a struggling Division Two club to a complete challenging side in the Division One.

Last Decade

Despite these successes in the past the club took a turn for the worst in the 90's, winning just 2 trophies in the entire decade, one under legend Graeme Souness and another club legend Roy Evans. By the turn of the year Frenchman Gerard Houllier had taken the hot seat. Houllier put Liverpool back on the global map with his treble-winning side in 2000-01, winning the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup. During the close-season they also won the Charity Shield and the Super Cup, however these 5 trophies were the only one's won under Houllier reign. Rafa Benitez took over for the 2004-05 season after Mr Houllier failed in his return of a league title in a 5 year stint. Rafa guided the team to it's first European Cup final since Heysel in 1985 and won in the most exciting final ever, coming back from 3-0 down against decorated Italians AC Milan to win on penalties. They managed another trophy the season later, a penalty win over West Ham. Unfortunately for the club this is their last trophy to date.

Your Target

And so you've chosen to manage Liverpool. You'll follow in the footsteps of Kenny Dalglish and have a measly £2m to spend as Title Challengers, or £2.6m as Winners. You're initial target is to take the club back into the top 4 and into Champions League football, but be warned; Tottenham, Arsenal, even the likes of Everton and Aston Villa will be fighting to push for this, it will be tough.

Right, so I've started as Liverpool on the demo, Title Challengers and so far only signed David Trezeguet for 500k. IMO he offers great experience and can score goals and is a very cheap option, will be playing second fiddle with Carroll. Tried to buy Vanden Borre from feeder club Genk as well as Hyland, but AVB (Hey, just noticed that! ) chose Parma instead, albeit on double the pay I was offering while they're asking for £3m for Hyland and I'm not paying that for a player worth 500k.

I have my assistant doing the friendlies and so far not so bad, unbeaten but no-one tough, drew to Genk, beat Sporting and Yeovil. Also currently have Arsenal bidding for Lucas Leiva for £12.5m Planning on buying James McCarthy to replace him.

EDIT: After selling Lucas for the £12.5m I had £10m bids rejected for both Fernandinho and McCarthy. Instead I've moved for experience once again, buying Ariel Ibagaza for 975k. He's a good passer and attack-minded so think he'll work well in the playmaker role. With the money left over may make a cheeky bid for someone, possibly Tevez...

|Finished the transfer window, played 3 games including an League Cup 2nd Round tie with Southampton. Opened with Stoke and drew 0-0, then hammered Southampton 4-0 at home, Coates scoring on his debut and Bellamy hitting a hat-trick and then just beat Sunderland 3-0, Bendtner missing a penalty in 2 minutes before a brilliant Adam free-kick, Agger and Suarez secured 3 points. Drawn Southend in the 3rd Round so should be an easy passage to the last 16. My transfers:

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Have Shawcross as backup for Carragher, who's getting on and can see him needing rest. Trezeguet has the height and finishing to be a solid backup for Carroll, Ibagaza comes in as backup for Adam as a playmaker and Thiago is the ideal replacement for Lucas as a Box-to-Box.

I started with liverpool and i'm currently 2nd in the table with 15 games played.Transfers:In:Jermaine Jones 12.5mPactrick Agyemang 500kOut:Lucas 7.5mJack Robinson 1.7m

So far everyone is playing great except Carrol. (played 13 scored 3) He is an absolute flop. Agyemang is a beast an great as a back up. Jermiane Jones is great is in the top 3 for tackle ratio in the league. Everyone's match rating are 7.00+ except Carrol and Doni.